The FARC’s biggest fear: Colombia’s paramilitary groups

The FARC’s biggest fear: Colombia’s paramilitary groups
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Jul 10, 2015

Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, is holding peace talks in order to become an unarmed political organization. However, one of the things threatening this possibility is a phenomenon older than the guerrillas: Paramilitary forces.

According to the FARC, their demobilization is unfeasible unless these right-wing paramilitary forces are also dismantled.

The left-wing rebels fear that once the FARC has demobilized, these right-wing illegal armed groups will target reintegrating rebel fighters like they did in the 1980s and 90s when thousands of leftist political activists and politicians were assassinated in what effectively ended the FARC’s first attempt to enter politics.

In order to push the Colombian government to take action, the FARC shared detailed guerrilla intelligence about alleged existing paramilitary structures across the country, the location of their bases, and possible links to military battalions and local politicians.

More:
http://colombiareports.com/the-farcs-biggest-fear-colombias-paramilitary-groups/